Slower speed once I put on filtered faceplate,

Had BT broadband for a week then cancelled which had a solid 6 meg speed though in last few days of connection it went slow for browsing and downloading and needed router reboots(not at mains but via config) tog et back to full speed but the speed was fine at 6 meg exactly.

Then got Sky and had the same 6 meg till I put on a filtered faceplate within the 10 day training period(faceplate was off for about 5 minutes) then it has stuck at 5 meg and has not gone back up.

Wondered if the faceplate is to blame or the loss of connection for a few minutes jammed the profile or something.

Re: Slower speed once I put on filtered faceplate,

Sky on their LLU do the line learning differently and tend to cap the speeds, so it is possible that the resync by unplugging meant the modem just picked up the speed that Sky thought would be the most stable for your connection.

Sky ADSL2+ has a tendency for lots of people to be be 0.5 to 1 Meg slower than other providers, they favour stable over raw speed.

Re: Slower speed once I put on filtered faceplate,

Thanks for that, I had Sky on the line for 8 days before that and apart from the 1st day training where it was limited to 4 meg it has been a solid 6 meg till yesterday morning when I put on the faceplate.

From the line stats I posted before I was told 5 meg is the lower end of what line is capable of due to distance so it may have guessed the lowest speed.

It was stable at 6 meg though, was syncing at about 6.5 but speedtests were 6 meg on the dot.

Re: Slower speed once I put on filtered faceplate,

I never upload so I dont mind that its more I do a lot of downloading steam games and updating them and already noticed the big difference between the 21 meg I got at old flat when everything was so fast.

But it was about 6.1 meg until I changed plates.

I wont bother taking it off again for a day or two to see if ti stabilises.